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Originally posted by JohnR
Striprman - you just don't comprehend or maybe you simply don't care about how posting on the internet can overwhelm a spot. It doesn't happen every day or on any post but it happens A LOT. I can't stress this enough, the Internet does not give up secret spots, just like most everyone says. But it DOES overwhelm them when they're mentioned. I've seen it a hundred times.
What the Internet DOES do is flood a spot with people. You get 500 to over a thousand people here per day looking at stuff, several hundred on one of the North Shore sites, close to a grand on the LI Sound site and a couple grand on the Jersey site, add that to the papers, and the shop reports and you can RUIN a location.
We're trying here to be both responsible here AND to share knowledge that will help people catch more fish. Not put someone on a rock or bar and say "cast there". That doesn't help people out. There is much more to learning than that. Telling people that Spot X is pukin' up large doesn't do that.
If people want to share spot with someone, PLEASE, I encourage you do it by a PM or something. Otherwise please speak in generalities.
Now with all that said, CSK, bad boy  , he was fairly generic with that.... 
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You would think that with a web site with the name "striped-bass.com" that the web site would encourage persons looking for knowledge and information about striper fishing would be pleased that friendly fishermen would share their information about specific fishing spots and methods with the internet community.
I find it strangely ironic that this isn't the case.
I find it strangely ironic that persons are happy to say what they caught, but not where.
I find it strangely ironic that a person that puts up a web site about fishing for striped bass, is actually asking, if not forbidding, others not to state where and when good catches have and will be made.
I caught a big fish, but I'm not telling you where...
then why bother telling the internet world in the first place? so you can gloat and bask in your glory?
Paranoid secrecy
Is this what "striped-bass.com" is all about?